20 Weeks: Kitchen Cabinets

So, back on the wagon, I promised to get that list of twenty problem areas in my home taken care of. This week, I cleaned out the kitchen cabinets under my counters.

Here are the before pictures:

YIKES!! These cabinets are particularly troublesome. They always start nice and neat and then, after a few loads through the dishwasher, they end up a jumbled mess again.

To tackle them, first I took everything out. Yep.

Things got sorted. The thermos made it all the way to the top shelf cupboard next to the water bottles. The potato ricer went into the roasting pan in another cabinet, since I usually only take the time to rice potatoes when I’m making a big fancy roast or turkey. The ice cream attachment for my mixer got put away with the stuff in the basement that only gets used occasionally. A few things got donated. The rest I tried to put away in some way that would make it simple to keep nice.

The mixer attachments are inside the bowl under its cover. The pitchers and flower vases have been removed from this cabinet as well. I got a nice drink container for Christmas that I’m storing in the buffet, so I could get rid of the lame old plastic pitchers I was hanging on to.

And speaking of plastic…

Besides that pitcher back there, one large Tupperware container and the popsicle molds, I finally chucked the rest. Well donated. But, I finally feel like I have enough glass containers and have slowly over the last two years weeded through most of our plastic to the point where I feel like I can be plastic free. That should make things a lot simpler!

Looking at the before pictures on this project, it looked huge and daunting. But really it took me less than half an hour to get the job done. Looking forward to finishing this last few items of the list!

Looks good! January, for me, is for spring cleaning. I like beginning the new year fresh. My beloved agreed to give up his weekend to help me clean and organize the basement workshop!! We’re going to have a dynamiye yard sale later in the spring!